"Slide" Brombek @brombek@social.privacytools.io

@celesteh YouTube has a toxic effect on young creators too; who end up burning out trying to chase the algorithms and relatively small amounts of ad revenue as there are often 20+ all following the same format, and even the popular (younger) ones all seem to be middle class kids living with parents still (its less of a problem to those in middle age who already have an established business/career outside of YT and are making videos related to this, but thats just another form of advertising)

I've just been reminded: I often forgot the constraints most people feel (and work around) with existing web hosting services! By which I include Medium and YouTube.

Running my own homeserver really illustrates to me how trivial all these webservices really are. They're very much pretty facades upon almost nothing!

Silicon Valley has done nothing to deserve your worship.

@alcinnz Yeah, UBI is a good idea regardless, not just because it helps poor people but it’d be a powerful force for stabilizing the economy, putting a check on just how wealthy someone can be, without taking away our incentives.

I can think of a number of changes to copyright that would all greatly improve things, but even just completely burning the law and having zero copyright would be better than what we’ve got now, so it’s not hard to find less crazy ideas for improvement.

inalienable copyright, patents, etc
13 year limit to that stuff
make it illegal to claim a trade mark on something that has become part of the public mindshare. Soon as it gets popular enough, bam: public domain.
public funding for artists, researchers, etc
no legal protections for trade secrets, or private research.
it only counts as a “copy” when it’s a commodity, so not ideas, performances, files, algorithms, magic numbers, etc.
legal protections for preserving attribution, severe penalties for corporations trying to take credit for the creations of their employees
Fair use is legal, without having to go to court pay a ton of legal fees and pray that this particular case won’t have a corrupt judge
More scrutiny on judges so that ones who are corporate schills can get caught, fired, hopefully jailed, and then replaced.

I could go on for a while…

wouldn't it be cool if r&d went into improving the things that are actually materially beneficial for user experience (i.e. software design esp. stability, interoperability/composability, performance) instead of "tech culture" being basically just luxury lifestyle brands selling halo products to people who both can't really afford them and shouldn't have to

i don't want more hardware and i don't want others to want more hardware either. a fancier machine isn't useful unless software improves

Inside the airline industry's meltdown: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/29/inside-the-airline-industry-meltdown-coronavirus-pandemic

A look at /e/OS on the FairPhone 3 - a FOSS OS for phones https://share.tube/videos/watch/ef3e5eec-27aa-45c8-b87b-64a57fc6e176

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Totally slow, unoptimized and ugly but well that's a start

I don't think it can have been more than about a year since I discovered Firefox's "Reader" mode, and in that relatively short time I have gotten to the point that, when I'm on my phone at least, I instinctively check for whether the icon is available on every single site and hit it the moment I see it, even if the page in question hasn't yet loaded/rendered to the point where I can even assess it's readability. I just do it, because I have literally never once seen a single case where switching to Reader mode made the site *less* usable on a mobile. Not even once. I guess this shouldn't surprise me - nobody would have gone through the trouble of writing the feature if it didn't work well. But what does it say that we have gotten to the point where its of real practical value to automate the process of routinely throwing away the entire product of the web design industry?

@rysiek @alcinnz Oh I think I remember the same ones. Was it this one (wealth) https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/ and this one (solar system) https://www.joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html ?

Data is not information; information is not knowledge; knowledge is not wisdom; wisdom is not truth.

Fun fact, my parody is pure HTML+CSS, not a line in JS.

It was pretty tricky to get it to work as intended, so of course I am sharing the code:
https://git.rys.io/rysiek/you-are-donald-trump/blob/master/index.html

The Architecture of Open Source Applications
https://aosabook.org/en/index.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24332485

@nanook @hypolite History will play out however it does. I would prefer a peaceful resolution but all the censorship of mainstream media makes a peaceful dialog impossible which leaves only violence as a recourse. This is one of the main reasons I decided to put up a friendica node. To the degree I can contribute to a peaceful dialog I want to do so.

Repost of something I put on Twitter, in response to a post about "Shuttering Google Reader Killed Blogging" https://twitter.com/dustyweb/status/1299506666640211973

a repeat mistake: being excited about a decentralized system's success because a big player moves in, becoming reliant on it, not providing a better alternative, big player leaves, decentralized system dies from shock

see also xmpp and gtalk

hoping to do better...